Software Engineer (Solidity + Python)

As a Software Engineer you are responsible for writing high-quality code for our products. You have the exciting challenge of working with cutting-edge research and technology with a focus on the market’s needs. To support you on this challenge, our products have software architects, product managers, project managers, formal methods specialists, and QA test engineers, with whom you must communicate professionally, effectively, and efficiently.

Duties will include:

• Follow agile software development practices
• Work with teams across multiple time zones
• Work independently on software development tasks
• Be proactive and require minimal supervision or mentoring to complete tasks
• Review specifications produced by architects and formal methods specialists
• Contribute to the design of algorithms
• Write clean, straightforward, efficient code that satisfies previously agreed acceptance criteria and specifications
• Commit often and submit small pull requests frequently
• Cover your code with unit, property, and integration tests when applicable
• Review the pull requests of your team mates
• Fix bugs in your own code and in legacy code from others
• Be available for emergency fixing of severity 1 issues on deployed products
• Integrate software components and third-party libraries
• Verify and deploy programs and systems
• Troubleshoot, debug, and upgrade existing software
• Write documentation for the code
• Write technical user manuals
• Be knowledgeable of distributed and concurrent computation.

Requirements

Your expertise

• Degree in computer science is desirable but not essential
• A minimum of 2-3 years development experience (professional or otherwise) in the required language (Haskell, Javascript, Scala, Rust)
• Experience working with Git and Git workflow
• Practical experience with agile software development methods
• Fluency in Solidity, including DApp development experience
• Experience with Python
• Ability to write Solidity and Python code from a specification, creating a specification from a high-level proposal
• Proficiency in Ethereum ecosystem tools such as truffle, web3, hardhat
• Understanding of virtual machine architecture, memory, and stack
• Understanding of EVM internals in order to implement different patterns to avoid or reduce EVM limitations (size, gas costs)
• Ability to work with the current team to optimise and debug smart contracts
• Nice to have: Knowledge of Solidity security testing tools
• Ability to write idiomatic code that satisfies the acceptance criteria of a given task
• Ability to decompose complex business problems and lead a team in solving them.

Benefits

Location

IOG is a fully distributed organization and therefore this is a remote position. Due to team distribution we are ideally searching for someone in a European timezone.

All Colleagues

• Flexible schedule
• Remote work - ability to work anywhere
• Laptop reimbursement
• New starter package to buy hardware essentials (headphones, monitor, etc)
• Learning & Development opportunities
• Competitive PTO and Sick Leave plan

US Employees

• Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits coverage through Anthem with 100% premium cost covered by IO Global for the employee and dependents
• Health Savings Account
• Life Insurance

UK Employees

• Monthly Health Stipend to use towards any wellness or medical coverage/service
• Pension